• Taekwondo fighter says athletes fear missing event
  • ‘Everyone is doing every single safety precaution’

Team GB athletes who have arrived in Tokyo for the Olympics are feeling “paranoid” about getting Covid, which would see them forced to isolate and likely unable to compete, according to one of Britain’s leading medal hopes.

Bianca Walkden, the taekwondo fighter who won a bronze medal at the Rio Games in 2016, said the entire squad was determined to take every measure to ensure that years of training did not go to waste because of a positive covid test.

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